Online Piracy

The Long and Winding Road To A Bad Call On 'Piracy'

Art Brodsky | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Megaupload, Warner Bros, Pipa, Kim Dotcom, Paramount, Sopa, Piracy, Intellectual Property, Online Piracy, Entertainment News

It's time for the industry to start listening to what they have been told by their audience -- that there have to be new, better and more convenient ways to get access to content.

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Guess What? Stealing Is Still Wrong

Logan Lynn | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Musicians, Music Industry, Recording Artists, Music Piracy, Illegal File Sharing, Downloading Music, Sharing Music, Illegally Downloading Music, File Sharing, Online Piracy, Culture News

I don't actually believe that stealing my intellectual property is your constitutional right. Sorry, everybody. I get that you are used to consuming music like it's chewing gum, but those days are numbered. I'm glad that file sharing companies are getting shut down.

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"We're the New Green Movement," Says Pirate Party Founder

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Elections, European Union, Pirate Party, Green Movement, Labor Movement, Rick Falkvinge, Sopa, World News

It has branches in some 50 countries. It has members of parliaments and city councils. The Pirate Party, founded only five years ago, is today's fastest-growing party among voters under 30. Its core message: internet piracy should be legal.

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Megaupload Founder Granted Bail -- As Long As He Doesn't Use The Internet

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Video, Piracy, Kim Dotcom Bail, Kim Schmitz, Megaupload Kim Dotcom, Online Piracy, Kim Dotcom Megaupload, Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, Hackers, Technology News

After a month behind bars, Kim Dotcom, founder of recently shuttered cloud-based content locker service Megaupload, has been granted bail by a New Zea...

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Reconsidering the Stop Online Piracy Act

Eric K. Clemons | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Digital Media, Internet Piracy, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Online Piracy, Dmca, Sopa, Technology News

Eventually, Congress will have to consider SOPA. Here we suggest several questions that Congress will need to address and very short suggestions of what we expect they will conclude.

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Stunning Percentage Of Youths Are Online 'Pirates'

AP | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Downloads, Video, Piracy, Acta, Pipa, Illegal Downloads, Online Piracy, Youth Online Pirates, Ap, Downloading, Sopa, Technology News

CHICAGO (AP) — Young people want their music, TV and movies now — even if it means they get these things illegally. A recent Columb...

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Book Downloading Site Targeted By Publishers

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Ereaders, Copyright Theft, Ifile, Irina Ivanova, Aap, Online Piracy, ifile.it, library.nu, Association of American Publishers, Ursula Feindor-Schmidt, Ebook Piracy, Ebooks, Fidel Nunez, Books News

A large coalition of publishing firms and related trade organizations has taken legal action against what the Association of American Publishers in Wa...

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Lady Gaga, Jack White, Norah Jones And More: 10 Musicians OK With Piracy

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis and Catharine Smith | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Music Piracy, Video, Piracy, Musicians Piracy, Pipa, Illegal File-Sharing, Online Piracy, Pro-Piracy, Lady GaGa, Neil Young, Megaupload, Sopa, Jack White, Norah Jones, Technology News

Following the massive web protests over Congress' online copyright protection bills SOPA and PIPA, as well as the high-profile takedown of file-hostin...

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Is Outkast's Big Boi A Pirate? How Twitter Cracks Down On Copyright Violations

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.09.2012

In early June, about three weeks before Beyonce's latest album came out, one of her songs, a collaboration with the rapper Andre 3000, made its way to...

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Only a Smarter Congress Can Make Better Internet Policy

The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Pipa, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet, Internet Piracy, Online Piracy, Politics News

Getting citizens involved will make Congress pay attention, but not every issue is a SOPA, where the internet shuts down in protest. Most issues fly below the radar. Only an empowered, capable Congress can make decisions.

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Music Blogs React to Megaupload Seizure and Cyberlocker Lockdowns

Jason Sigal | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: mp3, Blogosphere, mp3s, Piracy, Copyright, Music Blogs, Pipa, Online Piracy, Music, Sopa, Video, Technology News

Even if they were just the new sleazy middleman in the distribution chain, millions of users had come to rely on Megaupload for very legitimate uses. Now their files are gone.

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Common Sense vs. Piracy

Pasha Adam | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Television, Itunes, Netflix, Online Piracy, Sopa, TV News

Over the last ten years technology has changed. The way people want to consume television has changed. And yet Hollywood is moving at a snail's pace when it comes to revolutionizing the business model.

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What's Behind Washington's About Face On Internet Piracy

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Intellectual Property Act, Internet, Pipa, Internet Service Providers, Online Piracy, Internet Piracy, Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, Isp, Sopa, Technology News

Behind the SOPA legislative scene a very different and highly competitive industrial-scale battle is being fought by publishers of the web's content, Internet service providers (the final distributors of content) and copyright owners, including Hollywood.

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Piracy Shmiracy: We Need New 21st Century Business Models

John Tarnoff | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Media Business, Stop Online Piracy Act, Entertainment, Pipa, Online Piracy, Mpaa, Chris Dodd, Movies, Sopa, Media News

The MPAA and NATO are panicking because they don't know how to replace revenues lost not to piracy, but to newer commercial content platforms like Netflix or YouTube. This is a better explanation for the brinksmanship over the now-tabled SOPA/PIPA legislation.

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PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won

Art Brodsky | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Chris Dodd Mpaa, Public Knowledge, Pipa, SOPA Bill, Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Sopa, Technology News

Web community, bask briefly in your glory. Then get back to work, because the next industry-sponsored bill to curb technology will be here before you know it, and they might be smarter next time about how they pursue it.

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The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright

Dean Baker | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Innovation, Piracy, Copyright, Sopa, Copyright Infringement, Creative Community, Digital Age, Middle Ages, Online Piracy, Business News

The institution of copyright dates back to the late middle ages. It may have served a useful function back then, but we will need something better for the Internet Age.

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SOPA and PIPA Battle Far From Over

David Tereshchuk | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Mozilla, Digital Media, Pipa, Online Piracy, Rupert Murdoch, Hollywood, Wikipedia, Google, Sopa, Netcoalition, Media News

It all remains -- like all federal legislation tends to -- a matter of Washington lobbying, despite this week's one-day leap into the forum of public debate. And as always, the industry associations will in all likelihood remain the strongest deciders of how things go.

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Author Of SOPA Is A Copyright Violator

VICE | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Lamar Smith Copyright Violator, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Lamar Smith, Lamar Smith Sopa, Internet Freedom, Online Piracy, Copyright Law, Sopa, Politics News

US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA, as I'm sure you know, is the shady ...

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Key Company Reverses Course In Online Piracy Fight

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, First Amendment, Godaddy, Copyright, Congress Sopa, Go Daddy Sopa, Online Piracy, GoDaddy.Com, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Go Daddy, Internet, Video, Piracy, Internet Piracy, Congress Online Piracy Act, Politics News

The largest Internet domain registrar and web hosting company Go Daddy has abandoned its support for the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), accor...

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Don't Break the Internet

Mark Lemley | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Internet, Ip, Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright Infringement, SOPA Bill, Protect Ip Act, Protect IP, Technology News

Copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet is a very real problem, and IP owners need tools to deal with that problem. But the power to break the Internet shouldn't be among them.

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SOPA Kills Jobs, Requires Self-censorship

Tiffiniy Cheng | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Internet Piracy, Online Piracy, Sopa, Politics News

By Thursday, the US government will have voted to give the MPAA and itself broad powers to block any site. SOPA would not only hurt free speech, it wi...

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OPEN Act Falls Short for Artists and Creators

Sandra Aistars | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Online Piracy, Stop Online Piracy Act, Copyright, OPEN Act, Sopa, Protect Ip Act, Entertainment News

The process, hurdles and cost burdens proposed by the OPEN Act make this an unworkable alternative for artists and creators.

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Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Protect Ip Act, Anti-Piracy, News Corp, Video, SOPA Congress, Copyright, Online Piracy, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch SOPA, Protect IP, Stop Internet Piracy Act, Motion Picture Association of America, Sopa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capi...

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HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST THREAT

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Bruce Leddy, Creative America, Protect Ip Act, Anti-Piracy, Video, Copyright, Online Piracy, Eric Schmidt, Stop Internet Piracy Act, Motion Picture Association of America, Bit Torent, Sopa, Los Angeles News

Creative America, a group launched over the summer to support Hollywood's anti-piracy campaign, recently released the video above, explaining that tho...

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The Stop Online Piracy Act: Class War in Cyberspace

Dean Baker | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Stop Online Piracy Act, Online Piracy, Congress Online Piracy, Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-Congress, Sopa, SOPA Bill, Business News

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would place an enormous burden not just on Internet giants like Google and Facebook, but any website that allows people to post content or includes links to other sites.

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